Over the Borderline: Part Three. The Economics of Migration.
Unf*cking The Republic
UNFTR Media
4.9 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Our third and final installment of Over The Borderline stays below the U.S. southern border to look at the economic factors that contribute to mass migration from Central and South American countries specifically. We look at the root economic causes of migration, the U.S. failure to meaningfully partner with LAC nations to promote mutually beneficial economic conditions and the expansion of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Latin America and the geopolitical impact that’s having on our relationships.
Chapters
Intro: 00:01:01
Chapter One: 00:02:45
Chapter Two: 00:10:19
Chapter Three: 00:22:16
Chapter Four: 00:31:02
Post Show Musings: 00:38:18
Outro: 00:53:01
Book Love
Alan McPherson: A Short History of U.S. Interventions in Latin America and the Caribbean
Tad DeLay: Future of Denial: The Ideologies of Climate Change
Imperialism, Neoliberalism, And Social Struggles in Latin America
Resources
El Pais: Mexican Tycoon Carlos Slim Takes Stock of the last six years…
Congressional Research Service: Central American Migration
U.S. State Department: Dollar Diplomacy
World Population Review: Country Rank by GDP
World Bank: Latin America and the Caribbean Economic Review (LACER); April, 2024Â
Council on Foreign Relations: China’s Massive Belt and Road Initiative
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| 1:37.3 | Even though thousands of kilometers separate them, |
| 1:42.3 | China became Latin America and the Caribbean's second largest trading partner in 2021, |
| 1:47.0 | with almost $450 billion worth of goods exchanging hands, up from $12 billion in 2000, almost a 40-fold increase. |
| 1:55.0 | So why is China so interested in the region, and does this flourishing trade come at a cost. Since 2018, every major country in Latin America has shifted to the left. |
| 2:05.6 | This regional trend towards socialism, often called a pink tide, is driven by widening inequality |
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